Skills Quotes

2186 quotes by 1629 authors

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes. — Albert Camus
This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers… — Garth Stein
Kyle had to give her credit; it took skillâ€”plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English languageâ€” to break up with someone in… — Julie James
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph,… — Thomas Cahill
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.… — Ann Patchett
Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?â€ I asked Dad, trying to sound torn over the decision. â€œYes, list… — Kiera Cass
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.… — Susan Cain
You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if… — Veronica Roth
Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even… — David Deida
We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for moneyâ€”and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of… — Alan Watts
She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was… — Rachel Vincent
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually. — Ally Carter
I'd always disparaged the games people played in pursuit of love--or the next hook up. The whole thing was a competition to see who could… — Tammara Webber
He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naÃ¯vetÃ© and idealism; when young men skilled at the… — Jim Butcher
Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training… — David Brin
It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity. — Ted Chiang
The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not… — Janet Frame
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. — Jonathan Franzen
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of… — Philip Zimbardo
Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. â€™Tis obvious that fighting is your skill. — Maya Banks

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